End-gate for boys  express-wagons



(No Model.)

-J.EDLEBLUTE. END GATE FOR BOYS EXPRESS WAGONS. No; 547,774.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOHN EDLEBLUTE, OF SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

END-GATE FOR BOYS EXPRESS-WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,774, dated October15, 1895.

Application filed July 3, 1895. Serial No. 564,7 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN EDLEBLUTE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sheboygan, in the county of Bheboygan and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBoysExpress-Wagons; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention relates particularly to the bodies of boys express-wagons,the same being made like cheese-boxes, of a single piece of metal, wiredor beaded on the top edge and rounded at the corners.

My special object is to provide these wagons with an end-gate, so that aboy may take it out or swing it around when he wishes to unload or tohimself take a seat at the rear end of the body.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective of a boys express-wagon withmy invention attached thereto; Fig. 2, a horizontal section through thejoint of end-gate and body, and Fig. 3 a detail perspective view of theendgate.

In the drawings, Arepresents the end-gate and B the body of the wagon.On the vertical rear edges of the body B are formed the verticaltubes 1) b by turning said edges back on a curve until they abut againstthe sides b b, the said tubes being incidentally open at top and bottom.The upper edge of the end-gate A is wired like that of the body, but thewire is extended out at both ends and turned down to form the pendentpins a a, the pin at extending nearly or quite down to the bottom of itstube, while the pin a is only about one-third the length of the pin a,so as simply to form a catch which engages its tube to hold the end-gatein place. The vertical edges of the end-gate have an inside lap a overthe sides of the body, so as to make a thoroughly tight joint. Bylifting the gate about one-third of its height the pin 0. leaves itstube and the gate may be swung around on the pin a, or, if the boyprefers, he may lift the gate ed and set it aside. I

What I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

In a wagon body, the end-gate having the vertical pins a a, one shorterthan the other, in combination with the body having the vertical tubes12 b on its rear vertical edges as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN EDLEBLUTE. Witnesses:

JOHN ARTLEY, H. J. SOHADOWSKY.

